or a science? as functional programming languages are having their indian summer. is it their second, third, ... i don't know.

the slogan for smalltalk was: "write it once and run it everywhere". then came java and the saying: "write it once and debug it everywhere". in between was erlang armstrong likes to promote with: "written for programs that run forever".

joe armstrong why concurrency isn't harder to manage: there is no such thing like consistency (audio/mpeg, 521 KB)

one answer to the problem: let the system repair itself: biological (audio/mpeg, 429 KB) .

once upon a time there was an automated programmer ...